What day of the week was August 16, 1942?

The day of the week August 16th, 1942 fell on was a Sunday.

Barbara George the American singer- songwriter (d. 2006) was born on 16 August in 1942.

World War II: The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crash-lands in Daly City the California.